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This blog is based on WordPress, and customizing and SEO-ing it is a constant process, so I blog about that quite often. After all, good SEO on this blog makes for lots of visitors, which is exactly what I want of course.

Checking Blog Privacy Settings

Dec 31, 2009 Joost de Valk 29 comments

As a result of last nights post, I dove in and added a check to my Robots Meta plugin that checks whether you’re allowing search engines to spider your site. If not, it’ll throw an ugly warning on each and every page until you fix it: The code for it is easy, and as I’d [...]

Tags: WordPress Plugins
Categories: WordPress

Web Designer Mag should fix its SEO

Dec 30, 2009 Joost de Valk 57 comments

Ok I just had to post this, as it’s too funny. I got a Google Alert this afternoon for this post, which mentioned one of my plugins as being listed by Web Designer Magazine. So, I Googled them, as the post didn’t link to them, and got this result: Notice something? I know I did: [...]

Tags: robots txt, SEO, web designer
Categories: WordPress

WordPress Hosting

Dec 22, 2009 Joost de Valk 134 comments

You can find my WordPress hosting article here, because of an experiment the comments for that article are here, while the article itself is “on it’s own”.

Tags: apache, Hosting, wordpress hosting
Categories: WordPress

WordCamp NL Presentation

Dec 05, 2009 Joost de Valk 14 comments

I recently gave a presentation at WordCamp NL, and that presentation was fully recorded, you can view it here: Hope you enjoy it!

Tags: Blogging, Conferences, Online Marketing, WordPress Plugins
Categories: SEO, WordPress

Importing from another MySQL into WordPress

Dec 02, 2009 Joost de Valk 13 comments

Sometimes data imports into WordPress can be a pain, but most of the time, it’s pretty darn easy. In a previous project I had to go through the trouble of outputting WXR files and then importing those, but it’s really a lot easier if you do a direct MySQL to WordPress import using the WordPress [...]

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Smarter handling of WordPress plugin uploads

Nov 26, 2009 Joost de Valk 16 comments

While preparing my previous post on new features in WordPress 2.9, I ran across a ticket in Trac for something I’d been wanting to do for a while: specify a subfolder of the uploads directory for specific plugins, like my Blog Icons plugin, to upload their files to. This way, the blog icons plugin would [...]

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Geeky bits in WordPress 2.9

Nov 25, 2009 Joost de Valk 45 comments

Thanks to Peter Westwoord’s WordPress Beta Tester plugin, this blog is on the 2.9 development track again, after having been off trunk for a couple of months. That plugin makes it really easy to switch any WordPress install to the development branch, either for the next “point” release (eg. 2.8.6), or the next major version, [...]

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Gravity Forms Widget + Extra’s

Nov 21, 2009 Joost de Valk 31 comments

I’ve been blogging about Gravity Forms before, and I still think it’s one of the best plugins to have been released this year, if not all time. In recent releases they’ve been adding and adding and adding incredible new features, showing that you really do want to buy the plugin and get all their updates. [...]

Tags: Gravity Forms, WordPress Plugins
Categories: WordPress

Thanks to Yoast’s WordPress loving sponsors

Nov 18, 2009 Joost de Valk 12 comments

I wanted to say thanks to Yoast’s sponsors, for enabling me to continue to provide you with WordPress tips and tricks, and to allow me to work on some cool stuff that I’ll be able to announce soon! Advertise on Yoast, and get to that WordPress crowd This blog has a very engaged crowd of [...]

Tags: Advertising
Categories: WordPress

Comment Tracking in Clicky

Nov 17, 2009 Joost de Valk 8 comments

So one of the things I’ve always wanted to do is use an Analytics tools API to enrich the data about a visit. Clicky is one of the few tools out there that have a well detailed API that allows you to push in extra data during the visit. The extra data bit I really [...]

Tags: clicky, WordPress Plugins
Categories: Analytics, WordPress
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